Latiaxis pilsbryi

Latiaxis pilsbryi
Shell of Latiaxis pilsbryi Hirase, 1908, height 28 mm, locality unknown.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Muricoidea
Family: Muricidae
Subfamily: Coralliophilinae
Genus: Latiaxis
Species: L. pilsbryi
Binomial name
Latiaxis pilsbryi
Hirase, 1908[1]
Shell of Latiaxis pilsbryi Hirase, 1908, measuring 23.5 mm in length, taken at 80 fathoms in tangle nets off Cebu Island in the Philippines.

Latiaxis pilsbryi[2] is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.

References

  1. Hirase Y. (1908) "Appendix - On Japanese marine Mollusca (II), with the description of new species of Muricidae and Buccinidae". Conchological Magazine (Kyoto) 2(12): 69-73, pl. 41, figs. 239-240.
  2. Latiaxis pilsbryi Hirase, 1908.  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 5 December 2010.


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